Vantage Point

“The right of Catholics to express disagreement with their leaders is a right as old as Peter and Paul.”

Thomas Merton's classic memoir was published 70 years ago.

July 17 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat in Iraq that brought the Baathist party to power.

Juzefa Maciokiene recalls her ministry to her fellow prisoners 50 years ago, when she served them—to use her word and theirs—as their priest.

On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic peace activists burned draft files in an act of protest against the Vietnam War. This excerpt from America’s report of the trial (10/26/68) relates a “most unusual colloquy” between the defendants and the judge.

In liturgically celebrating the truth and power of the passion narratives, however, we must be equally energetic in proclaiming, as did Pope John Paul II on the Auschwitz anniversary: “Never again anti-Semitism!”